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08-06-2012, 10:06 PM
Strikeout King Wrote:Let me ask you NERDS ( nicker: )something, would any of you live on Mars, if possible?Only if I had too. Someday in the distant future, humans will either call other planets or moons home or we will cease to exist as a species. The colonization of the stars will either happen gradually over time or it will not happen at all and we will become extinct. The distances and times to reach destinations suitable for permanent colonies are too great for one or two generations to make the leap.
I would love to be among the first visitors to Mars. I think that scientists will very likely discover life on Mars and may even find fossils of more advanced life forms that lived there eons ago.
What is often overlooked in the debate about whether this country spends too much on space exploration is the value of byproducts of the research and development of the technologies employed in NASA's missions. How many of the common small electronic devices that most of us take for granted today would even exist if not for NASA? Does anybody think that computers and electronics would be as small, powerful, and inexpensive today had it not been for the need to miniaturize them so that they could be transported into space?
How many people who were born before the race to the moon was declared would have believed that a computer chip containing thousands of transistors and complete GPS capability would fit in an area smaller than a thumbnail? Or that the contents of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica could be crammed into a wireless telephone with plenty of room to spare and that we would live to see it happen?
I understand that it is much harder for those of you who arrived on this planet within the past 20 or 25 years have a hard time grasping the dizzying pace of technological advances that coincided with our race to the moon but give it a shot. As for being a nerd, I am proud that I have managed to keep pace with technology over such a long period to be called a nerd at my age. :lmao:
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Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-06-2012, 01:50 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-06-2012, 01:51 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 02:06 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-06-2012, 02:31 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 02:48 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by OffTheHook - 08-06-2012, 07:39 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by OffTheHook - 08-06-2012, 07:47 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by judgementday - 08-06-2012, 03:25 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 04:32 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by zaga_fan - 08-06-2012, 08:10 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 08:43 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Strikeout King - 08-06-2012, 09:26 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Wildcatk23 - 08-06-2012, 09:32 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 10:06 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 10:18 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Strikeout King - 08-06-2012, 10:23 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Hoot Gibson - 08-06-2012, 10:37 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Strikeout King - 08-06-2012, 10:52 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by OffTheHook - 08-07-2012, 12:14 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-07-2012, 01:03 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by zaga_fan - 08-07-2012, 03:15 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Granny Bear - 08-07-2012, 07:14 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-07-2012, 02:24 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by Granny Bear - 08-07-2012, 02:33 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by nky - 08-07-2012, 03:00 PM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by RunItUpTheGut - 08-08-2012, 01:25 AM
Curiosity Landing On Mars - by nky - 08-09-2012, 11:37 PM
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